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See also Wikipedia:High-risk templates and Category:Wikipedia protected templates. The following templates are indefinitely protected or semi-protected because a large number of pages directly or indirectly depend on them. These templates should only be edited when absolutely necessary.
This is a list of resources available that list pages that are protected, semi-protected or move protected. To request that a page be protected or unprotected, see Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Special:ProtectedPages - automatic list Also see Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages - indefinitely or permanently protected pages ...
This category contains pages which have been protected from page moves indefinitely. Use {{ Pp-move-indef }} to add pages to this category. This should only be done if the page is in fact protected – adding the template does not in itself protect the page.
Protected pages are categorized into subcategories of Category:Wikipedia protected pages, depending on the level of (and reason for) protection. For a dynamic and sortable list of all protected pages (including redirects), see Special:ProtectedPages .
make a request to protect or unprotect a page : see Wikipedia:Requests for page protection: make a request to edit a page : see Wikipedia:Edit requests: obtain user rights to edit protected pages : request user rights: report a user for persistent vandalism or spam : file a vandalism report: report a user for edit warring or violating revert ...
Only administrators and office staff are able to activate page protection. For example, the Main Page of Wikipedia has permanent protection because of its high visibility, and many of the pages linked from it may also be protected. Note that the purpose of page protection is for protection against vandalism, and not for censorship reasons.
In the meantime, please feel free to discuss the changes you want to make on the talk page of the page in question. However a few types of pages are protected indefinitely: The Main page and all pages and images included onto it, via cascading protection; Pages in the MediaWiki namespace, which contain system messages and text for the user ...
This category contains pages which have been indefinitely semi-protected from editing. Semi-protection prevents anonymous and newly registered users from editing; contributing accounts must be at least 4 days old and must have made at least 10 edits to non-protected pages (including deleted ones). Use {{Pp-semi-indef}} to add pages to this ...